Full Moon on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 100%. The lunar cycle is 15 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 14 October 2046 at 23:41 UTC.
The moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
The Full Moon these days is the Hunter of October 2046.
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating through the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 578 of Meeus index or 1531 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠1.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.7°.
2 days since point of apogee on 13 October 2046 at 11:22 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 October 2046 at 11:41 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 403 969 km (251 015 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 601 km (222 824 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 8 October 2046 at 06:47 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 October 2046 at 20:31 in ♋ Cancer.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 5 October 2046 at 04:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.388° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.246° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 October 2046 at 20:53 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov